Tabla de Contenidos: “…Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison's Lab; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: What Is True Collaboration?…”

“…"Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs--to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again."…”

“…Originally published in 1937, Napoleon Hill draws on stories from Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and more than 500 other men of great wealth to demonstrate his moneymaking philosophies. …”

“…You're probably thinking Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford. The usual suspects.This book isn't about them. …”

“…A finales del siglo XIX dos genios, Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) y George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), compiten -éste último junto a Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult)- para crear un sistema sustentable de electricidad y poder comercializarlo a todos los Estados Unidos en lo que se conoce como la 'guerra de las corrientes', una rivalidad entre ambos en la década de 1880 por el control del incipiente mercado de la generación y distribución de energía eléctrica…”

“…Based on deep and extensive research, including more than two hundred interviews with leading innovators, Sims discovered that productive, creative thinkers and doers-from Ludwig van Beethoven to Thomas Edison and Amazon's Jeff Bezos-practice a key set of simple but ingenious experimental methods, such as failing quickly to learn fast, tapping into the genius of play, and engaging in highly immersed observation, that free their minds, opening them up to making unexpected connections and perceiving invaluable insights. …”

“…A finales del siglo XIX dos genios, Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) y George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), compiten -éste último junto a Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult)- para crear un sistema sustentable de electricidad y poder comercializarlo a todos los Estados Unidos en lo que se conoce como la 'guerra de las corrientes', una rivalidad entre ambos en la década de 1880 por el control del incipiente mercado de la generación y distribución de energía eléctrica. …”

“…De manera similar, otros muchos inventos fueron obra de individuos que habían recibido poca educación formal: Bill Gates, Thomas Edison o Steve Jobs, por ejemplo. Por otra parte, el conocimiento acumulado también es necesario para la innovación. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Perfect Work Day -- Do You Have Rhythm? -- Henry Ford on Thomas Edison -- The Foundation of Rhythm is Freedom -- Happiness Equals Rhythm -- Regular Measurement -- Weekly Reviews -- Renewing Rituals -- Simple Assessments: What's in Your Way? …”

“…Para ayudar a solucionar esa carencia, este libro ha reunido a Thomas Edison, a Nikola Tesla, a Mark Twain y a otros personajes que convivieron con ellos entre el siglo XIX y el siglo XX. …”

“…The third volume of this widely acclaimed series reveals the breath-taking intensity, intellectual acumen, and vast self-confidence of twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Edison. In the depths of the 1870s depression, he moved his independent research and development laboratory from industrial Newark to pastoral Menlo Park, some fifteen miles to the south on the main line of the railroad from New York to Philadelphia. …”

“…Two decades after the American Civil War, no name was more closely associated with the nation's inventive and entrepreneurial spirit than that of Thomas Edison. The restless changes of those years were reflected in the life of America's foremost inventor. …”

“…During his late twenties Thomas Edison pursued his pathbreaking work in telegraph technology, formed a business alliance with the notorious financier Jay Gould, and became embroiled in a bitter legal battle over commercial rights to his quadruplex telegraph. …”

“…Al igual que Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs o el mismísimo Thomas Edison, Holmes intentaba derruir y revolucionar toda una industria. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.04 El más pequeño de los dioses3.05 Pensar de forma diferente; 3.06 Dos muchachitos; 3.07 Hablar el mismo lenguaje; 3.08 Un plato sabroso; 3.09 El informe de los expertos; 3.10 Tecnomalía informativa; 3.11 El castigo triple; 3.12 Wittgenstein; 3.13 Thomas Edison: una estrategia genial; 3.14 Gary Player; 4. …”

“…Warren Buffet, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Mary Kay Ash, Twitter, and Pixar Animation Studios are among the many profiled"--…”

“…Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity - and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives…”

“…The second part looks at broader interactions shaping technology and its social context: the question of who was to define "steel", the determination of what constitutes radioactive waste and its proper disposal, and the social construction of motion pictures as exemplified by Thomas Edison's successful development of the medium and its commercial failure. …”

“…. · Diana Ross might never have quit The Supremes if she had known that one-third of the artists in the 1960s who quit the group had charting careers of only one year. · Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph led to the modern record industry, but he is really the godfather of computer programs like Garageband which have created home recording studios. …”